class: center, middle

NeIC All-Hands Meeting 2022

CodeRefinery: sustainability phase

Radovan Bast @__radovan

Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration/ UiT The Arctic University of Norway

CodeRefinery: hub for FAIR software practices

CodeRefinery provides:

For organizations: an .emph[opportunity to pool competence] and offer more training and development opportunities than they could individually.
For volunteers and the team: a .emph[community around teaching] and opportunity for skill development, both in pedagogy and practical skills.
For learners: a .emph[welcoming and useful environment for learning] many necessary practical skills that may otherwise not be explicitly taught. This can be through courses, hackathons, and the like.

.cite[Juliette Taka, Logilab and the OpenDreamKit project (2017), https://opendreamkit.org/2017/11/02/use-case-publishing-reproducible-notebooks/]

CodeRefinery: bridging the gap

https://carpentries.org/

Collaboration models

Idea for a course/event
Announce to possible instructors: others join as helpers and give feedback
By working together:

we share knowledge internally and with learners
.emph[develop better and more open materials than we would alone]

What we need

A way to quickly share our plans at an early stage
Have enough spare time (and management support) to join courses that others may be proposing

Activities using this model

Research Software Hour: https://researchsoftwarehour.github.io/
Manuals: https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/
Instructor training: https://coderefinery.github.io/instructor-training/
Talk: "The Future of Teaching" (R. Darst) (notes)
Massive courses reaching hundreds:
- Python for Scientific Computing
- CodeRefinery workshops
Other courses:
- CMake workshops
- Testing hackathon
- Conda workshop
- HPC intro courses
- ...

Challenge: Governance

.emph[Clear distinction between NeIC project and community project]
NeIC role needs to decrease over time if we want sustainability
Make it possible and attractive for organizations to join also on short term
Dynamic project leader(s) chosen by the community
We will need legal support and organizational support in becoming independent

CodeRefinery Hackathon

Tuesday - Thursday, Jan 25-27
Everybody welcome
https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/ahm-hackathon-2022
https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com/

Focus: online teaching

How to scale and simplify online teaching, recording, and video production